Jeremy Lin quotes

Jeremy Lin is an American professional basketball player, best known for triggering "Linsanity" with his breakout NBA performances. His achievement as the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA drew global attention. He has inspired many with his perseverance, athletic talent, and dedication on and off the court. Here are 48 of his quotes:

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting. (Jeremy Lin)
Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted. View quote
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I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like. View quote
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I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do. View quote
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I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path. View quote
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Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God. View quote
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I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community. View quote
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I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody. View quote
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When I'm on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart. View quote
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My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times. View quote
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I just really, really, really hate to lose. Really. (Jeremy Lin)
Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things that he does in terms of the amount of charity work and the non-profit work, and the way he impacts people off the field. I think that is what is most inspiring to me about him. View quote
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If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers. View quote
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My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night. View quote
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I was shocked cause I didn't even know that they made my jersey. I didn't know that they made it so fast, so when I saw it I was like, I had to look three times and I was like, 'Did they customize that?' And then I saw a couple of other ones and I was like, ok, they must've made them overnight or something. View quote
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I absolutely would not have liked playing in Spain or somewhere like that, so I was just gonna do it a year. Then I was gonna be done. View quote
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From the sense of being an ambassador for Jesus Christ, hopefully, through my story and through all the improbables and the miracles that happened in my life, people are inspired or at least a little bit warmer to the idea of exploring who Jesus is. View quote
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I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough. View quote
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It's the off-the-court spotlight in terms of having people look at you in terms of analyzing every little thing you do in your life, or having less privacy in your day-to-day activities, that's an area I need to get more accustomed to. View quote
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I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts. View quote
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I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over. (Jeremy Lin)
People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court. View quote
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My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways. View quote
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With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore. View quote
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Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity. View quote
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Photo: nikk_la, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: American Athlete
Born: August 23, 1988
Quotes count: 48